Hendricks, Charles H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hendricks Family Press 1995
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.348 HTaylor, Diane C. (Diane Carol)
Summary: Discusses what engineering is, highlighting female engineers who revolutionized the role of women in the field and providing activities, including building a suspension bridge, designing and building a kite, and investigating processed food.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 TAYWiesel, Elie
Summary: "Magnificent insights into the lives of biblical prophets and kings, Talmudic sages, and Hasidic rabbis, from one of the world's most honored and beloved teachers. From a multitude of sources, Elie Wiesel culls facts, legends, and anecdotes to give us fascinating portraits of notable figures throughout Jewish history--from the Kingdom of Israel in the ninth century B.C.E. to nineteenth-century...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.1 WIECarles, Emilie
Summary: Translation of: Une soupe aux herbes sauvages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rutgers University Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.97 CARBarnes, H. Lee
Summary: There is the mythology of the Green Berets, of their clandestine, special operations as celebrated in story and song. And then there is the reality of one soldier's experience, the day-to-day loss and drudgery of a Green Beret such as H. Lee Barnes, whose story conveys the daily grind and quiet desperation behind the polished accounts of military heroics. Barnes tells what it was like to be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2011
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Summary: A tour of the psychiatric service dog industry traces the author's work with unwanted shelter dogs before matching them with people in need, documenting her own partnership with a search canine while sharing uplifting success stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 CHACharnas, Dan
Summary: "Equal parts musicology, biography, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the invention of a new kind of beat by the most underappreciated musical genius of our time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio CharnasCharter, Kay
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crofton Creek Press 2000
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Challies, Tim
Summary: History tells of women whose love for the Bible shaped its earliest and most prominent teachers. It tells of women who were great theologians in their own right, yet whose only students were their own children. It tells, time and time again, of Christian men who owe so much to their godly mothers. Raising children to honor and glorify the Lord is the goal of every Christian mother, but how can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cruciform Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270.0922 CHAGardiner, William H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mackinac State Historic Parks 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.4 GARCharleson, Susannah
Summary: "Readers take to the streets beside Susannah to bring home a host of missing pets. Along the way, Susannah finds a part of herself also lost. And when unexpected heartbreak shatters her own sense of direction, it is Ace--the shelter dog that started it all--who leads Susannah home. Inquisitive, instructive, heartrending, and hopeful, Where the Lost Dogs Go pays tribute to the missing dogs--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 CHACharter, David
Summary: "From the moment she first enchanted the world as a youthful princess, Queen Elizabeth II found a unique place in American hearts-and she also played an unprecedented role in forging transatlantic ties. Over her seventy-year reign, she developed extraordinary and varied personal bonds with thirteen U.S. presidents-Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, both Bush Sr. and Jr.,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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Summary: Presents an account of the return to the violence and corruption of warlord activity in Afghanistan after the displacement of the Taliban, revealing how the U.S. government assisted the return of corrupt militia commanders to the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 CHASearles, Steve
Summary: "In this wondrous and eye-opening exploration, Steve Searles, the reknown and respected "Bear Whisperer" of Mammoth Lakes, takes the reader on a journey into the lives of these remarkable creatures and the world we share. In the late 1990s, the town of Mammoth Lakes, California hired Steve Searles as a hunter to cull half its troublesome bear population. But as he began to prepare for the grim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023
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Contents: Preface / by Louis Begley and Anka Muhlstein -- The keys to Venice / by Anka Muhlstein -- The only way to enter Venice / by Louis Begley -- Venice : reflections of a novelist / by Louis Begley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.53104 BEGZimmerman, Eilene
Summary: "Eilene Zimmerman's ex-husband, Peter, had it all: He was a partner at a prestigious law firm, lived in a $2 million house by the beach, and had two great kids. Maintaining a friendly relationship, Eilene and Peter talked and saw each other frequently. But a few years after their divorce she started noticing erratic behavior: absenteeism, weight loss, constant exhaustion and sickness. Peter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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Summary: The author describes her youth as a runaway at age fourteen and how she was sent to a corrupt recovery facility where she faced intimidation and unconventional treatment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ETLLegler, Casey
Summary: "I swim for every chance to get wasted--after every meet, every weekend, every travel trip. This is what I look forward to and what I tell no one: the burn of it down my throat, to my soul curled up in my lungs, the sharpest pain all over it--it seizes and stretches, becoming alive again, and is the only thing that makes sense." At fifteen, Casey Legler is already one of the fastest swimmers in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: When the author is sent to Straight, Inc., a "tough love" program for troubled teens, she is psychologically beaten for months and forced to return to high school with a battered psyche.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ETLLegler, Gretchen
Summary: ""Woodsqueer" is sometimes used to describe the mindset of a person who has taken to the wild for an extended period of time. Gretchen Legler is no stranger to life away from the rapid-fire pace of the twenty-first century, which can often lead to a kindof stir-craziness. Woodsqueer chronicles her experiences not just making a living but making a life-in this case, an agrarian one more in tune...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trinity University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEGLER, GRETCHEN LEGLegler, Gretchen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 LEGGlenn, Sharlee Mullins
Summary: "As librarian at the Washington County Free Library in Maryland, Mary Lemist Titcomb was concerned that the library was not reaching all the people it could. She was determined that everyone should have access to the library--not just adults and those who lived in town. Realizing its limitations and inability to reach the county's 25,000 rural residents, including farmers and their families,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS 2018
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT 921 TitcombRustad, Harley
Summary: "In his early thirties Justin Alexander Shetler, quit his job at a tech startup and set out on a global journey: across the United States by motorcycle, then down to South America, and on to the Philippines, Thailand, and Nepal, in search of authentic experiences and meaningful encounters, while also documenting his travels on Instagram. His enigmatic character and magnetic personality gained...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.4 RUSEngle, Margarita
Summary: "De niña, a Teresa Carreño le encantaba dejar que sus manos bailaran a lo largo de las hermosas teclas del piano. Si se sentía triste, la música le levantaba el ánimo y, cuando estaba feliz, el piano la ayudaba a compartir esa alegría. Pronto comenzó a escribir sus propias canciones y a tocar en grandes catedrales. Entonces, una revolución en Venezuela hizo que su familia tuviera que huir a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021